Consortium for Ocean Science Exploration and Engagement (COSEE)
Plankton to Penguins: Antarctic Food Web
A well-written lesson plan, second in a series of four, gets high schoolers exploring how the Antarctic food web is impacted by climate change and the associated melting of polar ice sheets. It begins with a PowerPoint presentation about...
Nemours KidsHealth
School Lunch: With Great Lunch Comes Great Responsibility
In this nutrition worksheet, students create a comic strip about meals, nutrition, food groups, and the messages celebrities send about weight and nutrition. Students sum up their message with one sentence after drawing their comic strip.
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Food Pyramid-Planning a Healthy Meal
Students identify the five basic food groups. They use their knowledge of the food pyramid to plan a full meal that incorporates at least one serving of food from each group. Pupils classify their ingredients according to the food groups.
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The Five Food Groups
For this food groups worksheet, students use the colorful 7 day diary to color a star for each food group eaten each day. Students do not record how many servings from each group, just that they have eaten a food from it.
Do2Learn
Home & School: Food
What a treat! Help learners identify some of their favorite foods with this set of 24 picture cards. The set includes images of everything from pizzas and hamburgers to grapes and carrots.
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Eating Our Way to a Healthy Body: Classifying Foods
Learners examine the major food groups. For this classifying foods lesson, students discover the 5 food groups as they read books and play games. Learners then sort foods into the appropriate food groups
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Food Pyramid Mobile
Third graders study the food pyramid. In this diet lesson, 3rd graders discuss healthy foods, food servings, and food groups. Students cut out a few pictures from magazines representing each food group and create a mobile of the food...
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4-4-3-2 Food Counts
Students investigate the quantities of those foods they must eat each day in order to have a balanced diet. They determine the quantities from each food group they need to eat for a balanced diet.
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Exploring The Food Pyramid
In this exploring the food pyramid worksheet, students identify the food groups. In this fill in the blank and coloring worksheet, students write and color five answers.
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Food Groups
For this diet and health worksheet, students draw examples of food from 4 food groups which include fruit and vegetables, meat and alternatives, dairy products, and grains.
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Food for thought
Cake has to be good for something, right? Different foods are used by our bodies in different ways. Learners will first read about what fats, proteins, fruits, and vegetables do for the human body. They will then put each of food shown...
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Food Pyramid Quiz
In this food groups worksheet, students insert the number of servings needed for each of the six groups. Students also classify the given list of foods in the appropriate group.
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My Favorite Breakfast Foods
First graders consider the importance eating breakfast. In this breakfast foods lesson plan, 1st graders plan meals, examine a variety of breakfast options, and discuss the food groups. Students taste a variety of foods. Extension...
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Food Categories
In this recognizing the food groups worksheet, students read a breakfast and lunch menu for astronauts and complete a food chart by writing the bold lettered foods in the correct categories. Students write 17 answers.
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Fast Fats: A Nutritional Analysis of America's Obsession with Fast Foods
How do you read a nutritional label? Help high schoolers practice reading nutritional labels on foods so they can calculate the calories in different types of foods. They will also examine the effects of fat on the body and the link to...
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Familiarizing Students with the Five Food Groups
Students identify an assortment of foods from all of the food groups, then discuss each type of foods' benefits and what happens to the body if it does not get these foods. They classify the foods according to the food groups.
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Familiarizing Students with the 5 Food Groups
Students review a variety of foods and classify them into food groups. They identify the benefits of each food group to our bodies and consider how deficiencies of these groups affect humans. They sort pictures, view a video and write...
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Food For Energy - Four Food Groups
Students consider how food is converted to energy. In this science lesson plan, students explore the importance of eating properly with a balanced diet as they study 4 food groups.
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Five Food Group Bingo
Students practice naming and categorizing foods by playing Five Food Group Bingo.
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The Five Food Groups - Introduction to Nutrition
Students study the five food groups as an introduction to nutrition. In this nutrition instructional activity, students learn about which foods belong in each of the five food groups and they determine the need to eat a healthy diet....
US Department of Agriculture
Serving Up My Plate
Offer your youngsters an extra helping of nutritional knowledge and healthy tips with this resource, which centers around the MyPlate nutritional guide and offers three "courses" of plans and worksheets on the food groups and the...
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Exploring Food Groups
In this food group worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer. Students identify food groups found in each "combination" food.
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Cheeseburger Food Groups
Students use a cheeseburger to demonstrate knowledge of the food groups. In this healthy eating instructional activity, students learn about the food groups by investigating the different parts of a cheeseburger. The students create a...